Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-27500-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred covers approximately 1,200 years of literature. This is a book on "medieval literature" that foregrounds language as the agent for cultivating medieval friendship (from the first century BC to c. 1160 AD) in oratorical, ecclesiastical, monastic, and erotic contexts. Taking a different approach than many works in this area, which search for the lived experience of friends behind language, this book stands apart in looking at friendship's enactment through rhetorical language among classical and medieval authors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDonie, R. Jacob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Performing Friendship in Cicero's De amicitia
Chapter 2: Early Christian Friendship: Tradition and Innovation in the Fourth Century
Chapter 3: Making Love in Language: Friendship in the Carolingian Era
Chapter 4: The Drama of the Saints: Friendship in the Prayers and Letters of Anselm of Canterbury
Chapter 5: Rhetorical Friendship in the Letters of Heloise and Abelard
Chapter 6: The Ethics of Rhetoric and Friendship in the Epistolae duorum amantium
and Related Works
Chapter 7: "The Effort itself Is Great": Performance, Sympathy, and Authority in Aelred of Rievaulx's De spiritali amicitia
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

R. Jacob McDonie is Associate Professor of Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas—Rio Grande Valley. He has published widely on medieval friendship in Latin religious contexts.